Wichita eagle., 1887-02-13
A BEAUTIFUL BUILDING.
An Ornament to the City, and Mon
ument TO It's Liberality.
The Enterprise Of the Citizens or wichita anc
Their Faith in the Future MateriaIized
in n Grand Institution.

With the exception of the Lewis. Academ.
and YproEably a church or two, ard th
Grand Army ball. the public buildings o
Wichita so far have not proved ARCHITECTURAL
" very attractive or imposing. We hay'
MANY beautiful hoEies, and this year we arr
promised several magnificent business house
and hotels: and this year also the walls o.
two or three universities and colleges
as also those Of the government build
| inc are to be erected. Ali these
will add TO the attractiveness OF the
city. But that above all others which viii
stand as magnificent monument to the
unity and iiberality of the people of our city
that which viii attract, impress and draw
out the commentator and admiration OF
strangers and home seekers, viii be the
| beautiful and imposing edifice which is to be
| built in this city this summer, out of love for
Young men. There is no UNCONVENTIONAL
pride or single sectarian or selfish throb in
the Impulse " hich is to send up the wells,
towers and steeples Of the noble building, the
foundation for which is now being excava-
TED at the corner of First street and Topeka
Avenue. In only the greater cities OF this
country and OF Europe can be found these
striking evidences Of a better and a higher
civilization Wichita viii be the first city
in Kansas and in the west to prove her
claims to greatness and unselfish unity
by the erection Of such an institution The
hope Of every country, the hope OF every
city is in the young men. No city can de-
cay whose young men are morally and phys
ical;y healthy. That class is the work to
which the Y NJ G. a. looks. No man is
asked to subscribe to any creed, to
give up any conscientious belief, only
20 be true and pure in his moral and physi-
cal being. He is denied no healthful or le
climate pleasures Of mind or body, but
simply asked to be man. And all this and
much more viii the beautiful four story
eiilice ono the corner of Topeka and First
mean, with its lofty tower, its brilliant plate
glass and smooth wall fronts, with its bowl
ing alley and its reading room, with its
baths, gymnasium and game rooms, with its
pleasant parlors and lounging rooms, and
with all the other of its many healthful
pleasant and pure attractions.
Kaiser William said but short time since
that the new hope for his empire was the
fact that many young mems beer clubs
were joining the Y NJ C. 4. The decay,
corruption and vice OF a thousand cities of
today is tiaceable TO a generation of devital
lizei, vicious and corrupt men, witout moral
sense or physical power, which came of de-
bauched and incorporate youthful associa-
tons
Then let US see 10 it that this hope and
promise for the youth Of our city, rises in
imposing and attractive magnifcence 1t
viii! be bread upon the waters in the truest
sense. whose returns will not only be after
many days, but Immediately and for
all the years to come We are laying the
found .tions of a great city here, but the
foundations Will crUnJle and superstructure
fai, of realization if these boys who are SO
soon 70 take our places should prove weak
and vicious corrupt and unhealthy. The
more attractive and the more magnificent
We make this rendezvous, this theatre for
physical development, this school of moral
and mental culture, the more surely will our
hopes for our boys and the great anticipa-
tons for the future Of our city be realized.